Table of cartridges

Three tables, one per century, of pistol, submachine gun, rifle, revolver and machine gun cartridges by year. A fourth table, specifically for wildcats, may be added later or may be placed in its own page.

19th century

Name	Date	Nation	Size Metric	Comments	Image
.22 Short	1857	USA	5.7mm	Oldest commercial cartridge being loaded today
.44 Henry	1860	USA	11.3mm	Originally designed for use in "that damned Yankee rifle that they load on Sunday and shoot all week."
.50 Remington (M71 Army)	1867	USA	12.7 mm	.508
.450 Boxer/.450 Revolver/.450 Adams	1868	Britain		.455
.44 S&W (Smith & Wesson)	1869	USA	-	-
.32 S&W (Smith & Wesson)	1870	USA	-	-
.22 Long	1871	USA	5.7mm	second oldest surviving rimfire cartridge
.50-90 Sharps	1872	USA	-	The mainstay of the American Buffalo Hunter
.45-70 Government	1873	USA	-	One of the oldest centerfire cartridges still in commercial production
.44-40 Winchester	1873	USA	-	.427
.45 Colt	1873	USA	11.58 × 32 mm	Used in both pistol and rifle, sometimes referred to as .45 Long Colt.
.476 Enfield	1880	United Kingdom
.32-20 Winchester	1882	USA	-	-
.38-55 Winchester	1884	USA	-	-
.22 CB	1888	USA	5.6mm	low-power target round	Not Available
7.92 x 57 mm Mauser	1888	Germany	7.92 x 57 mm	AKA 8 x 57 mm Mauser
.455 Webley	1889	United Kingdom		year of approval
7.5 x 55 Schmidt Rubin	1889	Switzerland	7.5 x 55 mm	AKA GP-11
.303 British	1889	Britain	7.7 x 56 mm
9 x 57 Mauser	1890s	Germany	9.06 x 56.8 mm	-
7.62 x 54R	1891	Russia	7.62 x 54 mm	Oldest cartridge still in official military use, used in SVD Dragunov with Russia and the PSL rifles with many other countries.
.30-40 Krag	1892	USA	.308 7.82mm	-
.38 Long Colt	1892	USA	9.65 mm	-
7 x 57 mm Mauser	1892	Germany	7 × 57 mm	-
6.5 x 55 mm	1895	Union of Sweden and Norway	6.5 × 55 mm	-
.30-30 Winchester	1895	USA	-	First smokeless cartridge designed for big game hunting
.450 Nitro Express	1895	United Kingdom		by J. Rigby smokeless cartridge based upon .450 Black Powder Express
6.5 mm Arisaka	1897	Japan	6.5 × 50 mm	-
7.65 mm Browning	1899	Belgium	-	.32 ACP

20th century

Name	Date	Nation	Size Metric	Comments	Image
7.65 mm Parabellum	1900	Germany	-	Also .30 Luger
.450	circa 1900	United Kingdom		bottle necked cartridge for the Webley-Mars Automatic Pistol
.38 ACP	1900	USA	-	aka the "38 auto"
.32 S&W Long (Smith & Wesson)	1901	USA	-	long .32 S&W
9 mm Luger	1902	Germany	9 × 19 mm	AKA 9 mm Parabellum
.38 Special	1902	USA	-	-
.600 Nitro Express	1903	United Kingdom		Jeffrey, 900-grain (58 g) bullet 1,950 ft/s (590 m/s) at muzzle
.45 ACP	1905	USA	-	Automatic Colt Pistol
.32 Winchester	1905	USA	-	-
.35 Remington	1906	USA	-	-
.25 ACP	1906	USA	6.35 mm	-
.30-06 Springfield	1906	USA	7.62 x 63	-
.470 Nitro Express	1907	Britain	-	Joseph Lang
.44 Special	1908	USA	-	-
9 mm Browning Short	1912	Belgium	-	also called .380 Automatic
250-3000	1915	USA	-	3000 ft/s (910 m/s)
.300 Savage	1920	USA	-	-
.50 BMG	1921	USA	12.7 x 99 mm	used in Heavy Machine Guns and anti-materiel rifles
.270 Winchester	1925	USA	-	-
.38 Super Auto	1929	USA	-	-
.22 Hornet	1930	USA	-	First centerfire cartridge widely adapted for varminting
7.92 DS	1934	Poland	7,92 x 107 mm	Used for kbk ppanc wz.35 anti-tank rifle
.357 Magnum	1935	USA	-	Long .38 Special
.220 Swift	1935	USA	-	-
.348 Winchester	1936	USA	-	-
7.9 mm Kurz	1938	Germany	-	-
.218 Bee	1938	USA	-	-
6.5 x 68	1939	Germany	-	-
8 x 68 S	1939	Germany	-	-
7.7mm Arisaka	1939	Japan	-	-
14.5x114mm	1939	Soviet Union	-	-
.30 Carbine	1940	USA	7.62 x 33 mm	-
7.62 x 39 mm	1943	USSR	-	.311 from 7.9 mm Kurz
.280 British	1948	United Kingdom	7 mm	also known as 7 mm FN Short, intermediate round adopted in 1951	Not Available
.30-30 Ackley	1949	United States		Wildcat variant of the Win 30-30 by PO Ackley
.222 Remington	1950	USA	-	-
7.62 x 51 mm	1950	Belgium/USA	-	NATO (1953), T65 .308	Not Available
.454 Casull	1954	USA	-	Long .45 Colt
.308 Winchester	1955	USA	-	Civilian 7.62 mm NATO
.44 Remington Magnum	1955	USA	-	Long .44 Special
.223 Remington	1955	USA	-	Long .222 Remington
.243 Winchester	1955	USA	6 mm x 51 mm	6 mm, from .308
.458 Winchester Magnum	1956	USA	-	-
.280 Remington	1957	USA	-	from .30-06
.460 Weatherby	1958	USA	.458 11.63 mm	-
.22 WMR	1959	USA	-	basically a .22 WRF, on steroids
.454 Casull	1959	USA	-	-
5.56 × 45 mm NATO	1960	USA	-	-
.256 Magnum	1962	USA	-	formed from .357 Magnum
7 mm Remington Magnum	1962	USA	-	-
.300 Winchester Magnum	1963	USA	7.8mm	-
.41 Magnum	1964	USA	10.4mm	Primarily developed for use in large-frame revolvers
.444 Marlin	1964	USA	-	long .44 Magnum, .429
.22-250 Remington	1965	USA	-	Varminter
5 mm Remington Rimfire Magnum	1970	USA	5mm (.2045)	Obsolete rimfire
.44 AMP	1971	USA	-	.429
.30 Herrett	1973	USA	-	short .30-30 Winchester
5.45 x 39 mm M74	1974	USSR	-	AK-74, .215
.22 PPC	1974	USA	-	-
6 mm PPC	1975	USA	-	from .22 PPC, .243
6.5 mm JDJ	1978	USA	-	From .225 case
.45 Winchester Magnum	1979	USA	-	long .45 ACP
5.56 mm SS–109	1979	Belgium	-	NATO (1980), 2nd gen.
7 mm-08 Remington	1980	USA	-	308 Winchester case necked down to 7 mm (.284")
10 mm Auto	1983	Sweden	-	Developed by Jeff Cooper, originally produced FFV Norma AB, and introduced in 1983 in the ill-fated Bren Ten pistol.
.338 Lapua Magnum	1983	Finland	8.6 x 70 mm	Designed for military long-range sniper rifles
.32 Harrington & Richardson	1984	USA	-	long .32 S&W Long
.41 AE	1986	USA	-	Action Express
5.6 mm GP 90	1987	Switzerland	5.6 × 45 mm	for Sig Sauer 550, 551, and 552
.416 Remington Magnum	1988	USA	-	-
.50 AE	1988	USA	-	for IMI Desert Eagle
.40 S&W	1990	USA	-	-
5.7 x 28 mm	1990	Belgium	5.7 x 28 mm	PDW — Defeats Class IIIA body armour
.307 Winchester	1982	USA	-	Rimmed version of the 308 Winchester, for use in lever-action rifles
.224-BOZ	-	Britain	-	5.56 × 23 mm, in 10 mm case
.357 SIG	1994	Switzerland/USA	-
.400 Corbon	1997	USA	-	.45ACP necked down to .40 caliber

21st century

Name	Date	Nation	Size Metric	Comments	Image
450 Marlin	2000	USA	-	Derived from 45–70 Govt.
4.6 x 30 mm	2000	Germany	-	4.6 mm proprietary
.480 Ruger	2001	USA	-	Derived from 475 Linebaugh
.300 WSM	2001	USA	-	Winchester Short Magnum
.408 Chey Tac	2001	USA	-	Used in Cheyanne Tactical's M200 Intervention, and M310 rifles
.270 WSM	2002	USA	-	Winchester Short Magnum
7 mm WSM	2002	USA	-	Winchester Short Magnum
.17 HMR	2002	USA	-	Hornady Magnum Rimfire	Not available
6.5 Grendel	2003	USA	6.5 x 39 mm	Developed by Alexander Arms as a "low recoil, high accuracy, long-range cartridge for the AR-15 platform."
6.8 mm Remington SPC	2003	USA	6.8x43mm	Developed by Remington with members of 5th Special Forces Group
.223 WSSM	2003	USA	-	Winchester Super Short Magnum
.243 WSSM	2003	USA	-	Winchester Super Short Magnum
.45 GAP	2003	Austria	-	Glock Automatic Pistol
.500 S&W Magnum	2003	USA	-	One of the most powerful handgun-specific cartridges.
.17 HM2	2004	USA	-	.17 Hornady Mach 2
.204 Ruger	2004	USA	5.18 mm
.25 WSSM	2004	USA	6.35 mm	Winchester Super Short Magnum
.325 WSM	2005	USA	8 x 53 mm	Winchester Short Magnum
.416 Barrett	2006	USA	10.3 mm	Designed as a better alternative to the .50BMG for sniper rifles.
.17 Remington Fireball	2007	USA	4.368	high-performance approx 4,000 ft/s (1,200 m/s) in a small case